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Implanted electronic devices can be powered by a biological battery that exists in the ear, researchers at MIT, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and the Harvard-IT Division of Health Sciences and Technology have demonstrated for the first time. Team member Konstantina Stankovich, assistant p...
Astronomers have wondered for centuries about the possibility of Earth-like planets in the neighboring Alpha Centauri star system, but only recently did their ongoing search bear fruit. European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of Earth orbiting a star in Alpha Centauri. Obse...
NASA and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition have jointly developed a new robotic exoskeleton, dubbed the "XI," that could help astronauts in space stay in better physical shape, while also helping humans on Earth walk. The 57-pound wearable device is in essence a robot that fits o...
One of the nine Merlin engines of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket suffered what the company called "an anomaly" after the vessel's launch on Sunday. The "anomaly" looks a lot like one of the rocket's nine engines failing in mid-launch, as can be seen in the video below Initial data suggest that Engine 1 l...
The first resupply mission to the International Space Station conducted by a private firm is set to launch Sunday evening. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule made by SpaceX are scheduled to take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida at 8:35 p.m. Eastern time. Ahead o...
A company by the name of Rethink Robotics appears to be one step closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of people in the robotics industry -- it has unveiled an apparently easy-to-use robot that can learn and adapt to new circumstances. The robot, Baxter, has the usual oversized robot arms, but its ...
An international group of scientists from universities in various parts of the world known as the Dark Energy Survey had a Dark Energy Camera built in order to find out what dark energy is. Dark energy has been posited to be the reason for the universe's expanding faster and faster. DECam took its f...
Astronomers have long suspected that Jupiter undergoes more frequent collisions with space objects than we know, but this past Monday one apparently occurred that was so dramatic as to even be visible with amateur telescopes here on Earth. Wisconsin-based amateur astronomer Dan Peterson first repor...
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the feasibility of using all-optical switches for possible use in computing. Their research, published in Nature Nanotechnology, demoed all-optical switching in individual cadmium sulfide nanowires. They also demoed a functional NAND ...
While no one should expect to beam up to the starship Enterprise anytime soon -- or ever -- researchers from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have achieved a new record in quantum teleportation. This isn't anything close to teleportation to near orbit. In fact, this new ...
Luke Skywalker's fictional home planet Tatooine in the Star Wars films was perhaps most memorable for its two suns, but astronomers working on NASA's Kepler mission recently discovered something much like it here in our own galaxy. The discovery -- announced at a recent International Astronomical Un...
Just after 11 p.m. on Aug. 15, 1977, while pointing toward the constellation Sagittarius, Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope picked up a mysterious transmission that would very soon make history. For 72 seconds, the Big Ear was able to listen to that signal, which has since come to be k...
Research scientists in the UK have demonstrated for the first time a solid-state maser that can work at room temperature. Maser is an acronym for Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. If that sounds, and reads, suspiciously like the word "laser" that's because masers were deve...
Researchers from IBM and European university ETH Zurich have announced they have directly mapped the formation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor for the first time. They observed how electron spins move in a semiconductor while rotating, like couples doing a waltz. This will let them man...
Nasa's Curiosity rover has begun satisfying the curiosity of mission scientists by sending high-quality images of Mars' surface back to Earth. Although it's only had since Sunday night to collect data, Curiosity has sent a batch of snapshots that are already allowing the NASA team to garner a good d...
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